2011 Request for Qualifications Now Open – Apply to Join the REDF Portfolio

June 20, 2011 – 2:00 pm

REDF is pleased to announce the launch of our second round RFQ as the first step in selecting up to three additional organizations to join our portfolio and receive Social Innovation Fund (SIF) subgrants. Complete applications must be submitted by 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Friday, July 15, 2011. Submissions prior to the [...]

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2011 Request for Qualifications opens on June 20

May 31, 2011 – 1:26 pm

Breaking news: This week REDF officially releases an announcement of the timeline for our 2011 Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The RFQ will be open from June 20 until July 15, 2011. Last year’s Fall RFQ resulted in the selection of the six outstanding organizations that are now part of REDF’s portfolio.  We anticipate adding one [...]

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Ready, Set, Grow

April 26, 2011 – 12:26 pm

REDF April 2011 Newsletter Spirits at REDF were high as we marked the arrival of Spring with two ‘firsts’ that are described in this newsletter. Several dozen representatives of REDF’s new portfolio came to San Francisco for their inaugural gathering, where they heard from Paul Carttar, Director of the federal Social Innovation Fund.  He was [...]

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Disruptive Innovation – Is “Disruption” Enough?

February 24, 2011 – 1:54 pm

Once a year the Boston venture philanthropy New Profit offers a delicious smorgasbord of speakers and conversations to invited social entrepreneurs and innovators from around the country.  New Profit was an early investor in many of the most successful of these ventures – from Teach for America to Kipp Schools.  The leaders of those and [...]

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REDF Launches New Portfolio to Create California Jobs

February 15, 2011 – 7:47 am

Today we leave the starting gate — adrenalin surging, hearts pounding.  REDF and our partners in the field have been testing, learning, improving and preparing.  We’re aiming for a sweeping impact:  people who want to work find jobs and move on and up, rather than being frozen out.  Everyone who wants to work has that [...]

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From Egypt to the US: Governments, Hope, and Jobs

February 7, 2011 – 3:31 pm

Hope and optimism can be crushed or facilitated by government as the events of the past week in Egypt and Tunisia make clear.  When people don’t feel their voices are heard, and they can’t get jobs, they rebel. The other week, during the State of the Union speech, the President focused on how to create [...]

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Request for Qualifications now open – apply to join REDF’s Portfolio

September 20, 2010 – 10:48 am

Today REDF takes the first step toward achieving the goals of our new 2011-2015 Strategy, which will be formally announced at our September 30 Benefit.   Over the coming years we will work together to build a transformative, widely-replicable model of social enterprise that employs low income people with barriers to employment. Today we also publicly [...]

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The next big thing

September 8, 2010 – 10:58 am

Dropping my son and daughter at college for their respective Freshman years, I not only experienced the unique mixture of sadness, pride, and elation that accompanies these fraught moments; but also spent some time thinking about the job market that will await them next summer, and four years from now. I thought about how the [...]

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Be the best of whatever you are

August 25, 2010 – 3:29 pm

There’s been some controversy this week about the transparency of the selection process of the Social Innovation Fund.  I will hold my thoughts on that for now, except to say that since we received our grant award, we have spent all of our time focused on how to use these precious resources to create as [...]

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All people need the chance to work

August 17, 2010 – 3:12 pm

REDF is gearing up fast to meet the terms of the Social Innovation Fund award we received last month, with plans to issue a first-time ever (for REDF) Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to identify outstanding nonprofits in California to consider for our portfolio. Watch our website for imminent announcements about the timeline and requirements. Meanwhile, [...]

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